Language is the Key: An Evidence-Based Early Literacy Program
How Can Language is the Key Help You?
Language is the Key teaches parents and teachers how to promote early language and literacy through:
Preparing children for learning and school
Enhancing language development
Engaging families in their child's development
Supporting positive parent-child interactions.
What You Get
Easy-to-learn. Video examples and print materials make strategies easy to learn.
Easy-to-use. Strategies fit naturally into daily activities.
Effective. Supported by research evidence. Teaches dialogic reading strategies.
Engaging. High-quality video and audio draws viewers in and keeps their attention.
Each set of Language is the Key ($179) includes:
- "Talking & Books": (20+ minutes, DVD or VHS). Our basic dialogic reading program shows how to use books in a new way. Engaging, broadcast quality video designed for large group, small group, or individual learning.
- "Talking & Play": (20+ minutes, DVD or VHS). "Talking and Play" shows how to promote language development when children are engaged in play or everyday activities. The program reinforces the dialogic reading strategies taught in "Talking & Books" and helps trainees transfer the strategies to different settings.
- Resource Guide with handouts and instructions for trainers.
Available in English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Filipino. Each version features parents and children who are native speakers of each language. All versions of Language is the Key programs are available in DVD and VHS format.
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Reproduction Policy
Yes! You can make copies of our video and print materials. However, copies cannot be sold.
To make this possible we had to keep costs very low. We decided to use minimal, environmentally responsible packaging, and we advertise almost exclusively by email. Business people said we were crazy to do this. We joked that we didn’t want to buy a yacht, we just wanted to pay the bills. So far it has worked out well.
